Vectorization may refer to:
Computing
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Array programming
In computer science, array programming refers to solutions which allow the application of operations to an entire set of values at once. Such solutions are commonly used in scientific and engineering settings.
Modern programming languages tha ...
, a style of computer programming where operations are applied to whole arrays instead of individual elements
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Automatic vectorization
Automatic vectorization, in parallel computing, is a special case of automatic parallelization, where a computer program is converted from a scalar implementation, which processes a single pair of operands at a time, to a vector implementation, w ...
, a compiler optimization that transforms loops to vector operations
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Image tracing
In computer graphics, image tracing, raster-to-vector conversion or raster vectorization is the conversion of raster graphics into vector graphics.
Background
An image does not have any structure: it is just a collection of marks on paper, grain ...
, the creation of vector from raster graphics
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Word embedding
In natural language processing (NLP), word embedding is a term used for the representation of words for text analysis, typically in the form of a real-valued vector that encodes the meaning of the word such that the words that are closer in the v ...
, mapping words to vectors, in natural language processing
Other uses
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Vectorization (mathematics)
In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the vectorization of a matrix is a linear transformation which converts the matrix into a column vector. Specifically, the vectorization of a matrix ''A'', denoted vec(''A''), is ...
, a linear transformation which converts a matrix into a column vector
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Drug vectorization
In pharmacology and medicine vectorization of drugs refers to (intracellular) targeting with plastic, noble metal or silicon nanoparticles or liposomes to which pharmacologically active substances are reversibly bound or attached by adsorption.
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, to (intra)cellular targeting
See also
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Vector (disambiguation)
Vector most often refers to:
*Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction
*Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism
Vector may also refer to:
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Vector graphics (disambiguation)
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